Posted by: Anonymous
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on July 27, 2008 12:53 AM
If you want to talk server-side, fine[0]:
In 2000, Windows comprised about half of the server operating system market, followed by Unix and Netware at about 17 percent each and Linux reaching towards 10 percent, she said, noting that today[October, 2007] Windows owns about 70 percent, Linux about 20 percent, with Unix below 10 percent and Netware barely registering.
Of course, there is a counter-argument[1]:
IDC's survey is really all about measuring new hardware server sales, not what people are actually using as servers. It's also not really measuring server virtualization. For example, IBM is currently consolidating about 3,900 of its own servers onto 33 System z mainframes running God only knows how many Linux virtual machines. Again, IDC, in this survey, is measuring hardware servers, not server instances.
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Re(2): Is OpenSolaris in hot water?
Posted by: Anonymous [ip: 24.2.156.64] on July 27, 2008 12:53 AMOf course, there is a counter-argument[1]:
A far cry from "everyone runs Linux"...
Ken
[0] http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Linux-and-Open-Source/Linux-Losing-Market-Share-to-Windows-Server/
[1] http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS8060720094.html
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